Wallace laughs inappropriately
Wallace is watching her pace across his dorm room, making wide arcs around Piz as he sits on the floor by his bed looking through old sheet music.
Its been a lot less awkward than he thought it'd be living with Piz after the mysterious PizRonica break up of the summer.
He has a feeling Veronica made him think it was his idea.
Piz pulls his legs up close to his chest as Mac makes another pass.
"Mac seriously you need to stop pacing your giving me motion sickness."
She stops, crosses her arms, uncrosses them, crosses them the other way.
"What am I doing?" She asks him and honestly he hasn't a clue.
It's the first complete sentence he's gotten from her all visit. Just gibberish about cabins and evil and trees and crazy and of course Dick.
He figures that's why she's here rather than pacing her own place.
"What did you do?"
She sags against the wall, "I asked Dick out."
"Like on a real date?" He's pretty sure he doesn't remember how to use his arms. Because a real date means that they like each other, like the parts that don't fit together.
She nods.
"So...not a fling then?" He can't help but ask. He'd just assumed that the thing between dick and mac was a physical thing only I mean he kinda figure that was Dicks appeal.
He had a hard time pulling together an idea of Dick and Mac having a conversation that didn't lead to them making it in a closet. Something he really wishes he had never seen. As if seeing Dick leave a supply closet with a huge stupid smile on his face and lipstick on his collar wasn't bad enough but to see Mac leave the same closet shortly after trying to get her skirt straight well he would have preferred to not actually know that about Mac.
"Not a fling..." She looks down at her shoes and there's a blush to get face he so rarely sees, "he called me his girlfriend." She says the word like it's sacred.
Even Piz looks up at that, "isn't he a pi?"
"So?" Mac asks and it looks like she's ready to fight about it.
"Well doesn't sex quest start right away?"
"So?"
Okay. So Mac must actually really like Dick if she's being so flippant about sex quest, something that is totally up Dicks alley, she doesn't seem to even care at all. Like he'd asked her if it was cold in Spain right now. Like it didn't even concern her at all.
"He's not participating?" Wallace asks and tries rather unsuccessfully to keep the disbelief out of his voice.
"No he's not."
"He told you that because he could be..."
Mac looks at Wallace and there's a ridiculous amount of confidence in her. Its like she's on fire. He can't believe that Dick could do that for her.
"He isn't lying Wallace, he hasn't even told me." She says it softly.
"Then how do you?"
"Pete told me." She smirks, "well actually so did half of his pledge class and Charleston."
Well that's kind of cute actually, all the pi sigmas seem to have this little Mac fan club going on from what he remembers of the party.
"So what are you doing for this date then?" He asks leaning back against his pillows wondering exactly when all the girls in his life stopped thinking of him as a man. Was stopped even the right word? Had he ever been a boy to them?
"We're going to go see Evil dead 2 down town. They're doing a midnight showing on the weekend." He watches as a kind of nervous excitement just seems to fall off of her, "he hasn't seen it can you believe it?!"
She starts pacing again, "what the hell am I supposed to wear? Am I supposed to put out? It is technically our first date..."
"Mac you've had sex with him like a million times before you can put out if you want." Wallace tells her trying to push down the laughter that's trying to make its way into the world.
"It doesn't make me a whore right?" She asks him scared, "I don't want him to think I'm easy."
Okay at that he actually does start laughing.
"Are you serious?"
"Wallace!" Piz yelps from the ground coming quickly to Macs defence like the boy scout that he is.
He wipes the tears from his eyes and sees the devastation on Macs face and feels instantly like scum.
He sighs, "Mac I'm sorry but that's just ridiculous, no one thinks your easy and I'm positive if anyone said that Dick and like half a dozen other people including everyone in this room, V and Logan would put them in the ground."
He honestly would feel bad for anyone who tried to fuck with Mac right now. Dick, Logan and Veronica weren't exactly the most stable people he knew.
"So how are you getting past Veronica for this little adventure?"
"Fire escape." She tells him simply and he starts laughing again.
"Wallace this is serious I am freaking out here. What if everything goes really badly?"
"Mac if he quit sex quest for you, you don't have anything to worry about. I've seen the look on his face after he's been with you. He likes you."
"Yeah I know were good together for the sex stuff it's all the other stuff I'm worried about."
"What other stuff?"
"Like if I should hold his hand or what the hell we should talk about or if I even know anything about him other than what he likes in bed." He watches as Mac lies face down on the floor near Piz, "I am going to be the worst girlfriend ever."
He can't even imagine the ludicrous ideas running through her head. Honestly he thinks Dick has more to worry about in the actual relationship department. Has he ever even had a proper girlfriend before? One that apparently liked him for reasons beyond what his net worth was or what he kept in his pants?